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The [[Hive Mind]]'s version of a [[Heel Face Turn]] (or [[Face Heel Turn]]) Turn. One problem with writing the [[Hive Drone|members]] of the Hive Mind is that it leaves little room for individual characterisation since everyone pretty much acts the same way (their personalities being subordinated to the greater whole). Enter the rogue drone, a member of the hive whose mind has somehow broken off of the central entity, opening up the path for him to become an unique character on his own right.
Rarely does the drone itself choose to be that way, though. It may be that the drone has displayed "odd" behavior even before their change, and a rare few [[Defector From Decadence|may even have developed individuality on their own]]. Most of them, however, are simply victims of circumstance, who were genuinely faithful and devoted servants up until the point when enemy influence or an unfortunate disaster disconnected them from the central core. For most drones, this is a life-shattering event. Most of them do not have a natural concept of individuality, and without a higher authority to make decisions for them they become lost and confused. A lot of them attempt to rejoin their hive, only to be driven away because [[Individuality Is Illegal]].
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== Literature ==
* Lady [[Meaningful Name|Myria]] [[Punny Name|LeJean]], from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. The Auditors aren't technically a hivemind; they're separate existences that don't allow individuality, though, so it's much the same effect. Once she picks up a physical body, a name, and a gender, she starts seeing life as less of a blight on the perfection of the universe.
* The surviving clone in [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s short story "Nine Lives." The story is about his attempt to come to terms with being an individual after the rest of his clones are killed (the clones having been bred and raised as a functional Hive Mind).
* The author of the [[Metabarons Universe]] have another series in which an accident in the police officer-cloning factory results in one clone being [[The Giant|a giant]]. He only wants to serve like the others, but the system perceives him as a threat and tries to kill him, so he ends up joining [[La Résistance]].
* Mark from the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' might count. He's a {{spoiler|clone of Miles}} who manages to escape his programming, and become (mostly) a good guy.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Hugh the Borg in the ''[[Star Trek: The
* Seven of Nine from ''[[Star Trek:
** Unimatrix Zero is a subcollective of drones who retain their individuality and can communicate when regenerating, who are eventually severed from collective control and start a civil war within the Borg in the finale of season 6. Seven of Nine was a member of Unimatrix Zero before being freed from the collective.
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== Video Games ==
* Nordom from ''[[Vidoegame/Planescape Torment|Planescape Torment]]''. In the [[Planescape]] [[Dungeons
* Player Character from ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]'' could be called an example of this trope, although it is more of a case of a person never fully turned into a hive member in the first place.
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' plays with this trope. Legion is not a single drone but a cluster of 1,183 Geth runtimes, but they co-inhabit a single (very durable) combat platform and the nature of their mission makes contact with the main Geth [[Hive Mind]] very sparse. They are not actually "rogue" but more like "on a permanent deep-cover mission, maintaining radio silence at all times" - it turns out that the geth [[Player Character|Shepard]] has been fighting are a "heretic" splinter faction, and the majority of the geth want no more to do with the villains than Shepard, who Legion was specially sent to assist.
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